On today’s Tech Help for Churches: Using WordPress as a content management system. WordPress isn’t just a blogging platform. With a few tweaks, you can easily turn it into a cms for your website.
Paul
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TNB130517 — Getting a signal to a projector & New Uses for Keynote
On today’s Tech, No Babel, if you need to get a signal from your computer or video switcher to a projector, what cable should you use. If you have a Mac, how can you use Keynote in other ways.
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THFC130513 Why Twitter
On today’s Tech Help for Churches, Why Twitter. Each social network has its own flavor. LinkedIn is for business, FaceBook is all about people you know, but what about Twitter? How should churches us it?
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TNB130509 DSLRs for Video
On today’s Tech, No Babel, using a DSLR for video. In the old days, cameras were cameras and camcorders were camcorders. Some models did what the other was good at, but they didn’t do it well. Today, the video that a DSLR creates is beautiful.
You just need to keep three things in mind that you might not be used to. ISO, Shutter speed, and f-stop all affect the image. In this episode, we’ll discuss each.
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THFC130506 Digital street preaching
On today’s Tech Help for Churches: Digital Street Preaching. There are good ways to talk about your faith and ineffective ones. Today we talk about sharing our faith online through the lens of some street preaching that I recently saw and the reactions I observed.
Paul
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Announcing the ChurchTechCast.com schedule
I’ve told you that I wanted to create a streaming network to help churches learn how to use technology to affect lives and eternities. Last week I did some testing and was very pleased with the results, so now, I’m pleased to announce the ChurchTechCast.com network here at TrinityDigitalMedia.com
Here’s the schedule for the shows I’ll be doing most weeks:
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Mondays
- 11 am Eastern (8 am Pacific, 3 pm UTC): Podcast recording: Tech Help for Churches (web and internet technology)
- 2 pm Eastern (11 am Pacific, 6 pm UTC): Video teaching recording: Creating Church (creativity and art)
- 11 am Eastern (8 am Pacific, 3 pm UTC): YouTube Video series: Eternity Changers (chasing your dreams)
- 11 am Eastern (8 am Pacific, 3 pm UTC): Podcast recording: Tech, No Babel (video and graphic design)
- 2 pm Eastern (11 am Pacific, 6 pm UTC): Live only: Tech & Creativity Questions & Answers or Video Tutorials
Tuesdays
Wednesdays
Thursdays
Fridays
I hope one of those shows helps your church or ministry. They’ll be streamed live thanks to my partnership with WorshipChannels.com
I believe that this means I have the world’s first church tech streaming network. Please let me know of any others because I’d love to ask question, but right now the closest thing to what I’m doing is the TWIT.tv network.
The only think I don’t know is how to support it all. My three choices are: donations, advertising, or memberships. I’m leaning toward advertising, but I could absolutely do a hybrid model as well. I don’t like the idea of being subject to what advertisers I could get because, at least at the beginning, I might have trouble getting anything other than those “belly fat” ads and I would prefer only to have advertisers who would be beneficial to you, the audience. Oh well, more details to figure out.
Let me know your preference on how to support this thing and any show ideas you have.
Paul
TNB130502 — Streaming for Churches
On today’s Tech, No Babel, streaming for your church. I’ve been streaming live at http://Live.TrinityDigitalMedia.com. Should you use a free service or should you pay? What do you need to stream? What could go wrong?
Paul
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2013 Numerical Goals — May Update
My goals, original numbers as of April 8th, and today’s numbers:
- 200 youtube subscribers (51 as of 4/8); 53 today (+2 about a 4% increase)
- 20,000 twitter followers (12,656 as of 4/8); 13,623 today (+967 about a 7% increase)
- 1,000 newsletter subscribers (627 as of 4/8); 730 today (+103 about a 16% increase)
- 100 likes for the TDM facebook page (18 as of 4/8); 51 today (+33 about a 183% increase)
- Circled by 2,000 on Google plus (529 as of 4/8); 583 today (+54 about a 10% increase)
- 650 followers on Pinterest (169 as of 4/8); 178 today (+9 about a 5% increase)
- 2,000 monthly unique visitors to TrinityDigitalMedia.com (448 as of 4/8); 668 today (+220 about a 48% increase)
So what did I do?
For YouTube and Pinterest, not much.
On Google+ and Twitter, I followed people and they followed me back.
For my newsletter, I send out a DM offering people a copy of Podcasting Church for following me (you can get the same offer below or to the right).
For my FaceBook page, I just asked friends to like the page. I have 730 friends on my personal account, so some of them are bound to like my page if I ask, right? Yep.
For web traffic, I frankly didn’t have any idea how I was going to hit 1000 uniques. Here’s what I’ve been doing, though. Podcasting and live streaming. That’s really it. No special SEO strategy, no advertising, I don’t think I’ve even written any guest posts. Most of the bump has been this week, so I hope it continues.
Paul
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THFC130429 — Making new WordPress Themes with Child Themes
On today’s Tech Help for Churches, how to create your own WordPress theme by using Child Themes.
Additional links:
The WordPress.org Codex entry on Child themes
An article I wrote for WPDaily.co on Child Themes
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Announcing Live Streaming
Last week, I started doing the Tech Help for Churches podcast and I picked back up with Tech, No Babel.
Somehow, Shawn from WorshipChannels.com was on my email list and he offered to sponsor me to live stream.
So, today I did my first test show. I’m not absolutely certain when I’m going to do certain shows, but it went fine.
So if you’d like to watch my new channel, head over to Live.TrinityDigitalMedia.com and watch.
This week, I’ll be testing and playing. Keep watching because I’d love to have you join me.
This is the start of something big. I can feel it.
Paul
